Box-fastener.



Patented Aug. l9, I902. W. JORDAN.

BOX FASTENEB.

(Application filed Sept. 27, 1901.;

(No Model.)

WITNESSES:

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IVILLIAM JORDAN, OF WINONA, MINNESOTA.

BOX-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 707,424, dated August 19, 1902.

Application filed September 2'7. 1901- Serial No. 76,733. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM JORDAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Winona,

in the county of WVinona and State of Minnesota, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Box-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to the means for fastening the covers of boxes or crates, especially such as are applicable for packing beer in bottles or otherbottled goods. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the box with the cover removed and attached to the box by means of chains; Fig. 2, a View of the under side of the cover; Fig. 3, a vertical section through the cover and upper part of the box on the line 1 1; Fig. 4, a top view of the lock-plate and a rotatable handle arranged therein, the said lock-plate being in practice located in the center and top of the box-cover; Fig. 5, a detailed sectional view of the different parts of the lock-plateand handle shown in Fig. 4; Fig. 6, a bottom View of the lockplate with locking-lever and ends of lock-bars attached. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are enlarged views.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A represents the box proper, B the cover, and O the lock-plate, which is constructed with a central depressed portion adapted to receive the handle it, whose function is here inafter stated.

Ob is a cleat or cleats all around the box on the inside near its top, on whichthe cover rests.

I) Z) represent iron bands or straps for strengthening the box.

a c are cleats screwed to the under side of cover.

d d cl d are metal keepers lock-bars e c in place.

ff are slotted metal plates, into which the ends of the lock-bars engage when the box is locked, there being one of such plates at each end of the box.

72. is the lever or handle which operates the bars or bolts used to fasten or unfasten the cover. This handle works in the countersunk for holding the plate 0, so that the top of said handle his entirely below the main face of said plate (I, there being an elongated pin on the under side of the handle it, which passes down through a hole in the center of the countersunk plate and through the locking-lever n and is secured to the same by the pin 19, which passes through the hole t and lies in notches or open slots formed in the boss 10' of lever n. In the recesss in the locking-levern is a friction spring-washerm, preferably constructed of rubber, which encircles the pin on the bandle h and by e'u'dwise expansion tends to draw the pin and handle it downward. In the countersunk disk of the plate C are two dogs or stops 11 i, which are so placed that the handle or lever 72,, which works between them, can move but one-quarter way around the'circle. The section of the disk between these points or stops is raised at the center 70, and thus serves, in connection with the friction springwasher m, to securely hold the handle or lever h at such of the points as it is placedthat is to say, when the handle h is turned it rides over the raised part It and is locked between it and the stops "6. At either end of the locking-lever n are the pins 0 0, over each of which is placed one end of the lock-bars c e and which work in the cleats or keepers d d and d (Z. In Figs. 4 and 6 the parts are shown in the position that they are in when the box is unlocked. The dotted lines indicate the position of the same parts when the box is.

turned one-fourth way around in the direc tion indicated by the arrow to the position shown by the dotted lines, and the box is locked, the lock-bars and locking-lever being then as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 6. When the cover is fastened on the box, a label or seal may be pasted over the handle, thus eifectually locking and sealing the same until the seal is broken.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination, with a box-body and its cover, of the fastener described, comprising slidable locking-bars, a countersunk plate let into the cover and provided with stops arranged as shown, and an intermediate raised surface within the sunken portion, a leverhandle arranged in the latter and having a centralpin passingthrough the plate,aspringwasher applied to said pin, a lever below the plate which is pivoted to the locking-bars and provided with a notched boss, and a pin which looks the pin of the lever-handle to said boss, as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the box body and cover, of slidable locking bars, a recessed plate securedto the upper side of said cover and having a stop and adjacent raised surface in its recessed portion, a lever-handle arranged in the recess of the plate and provided with a pendent pin, a spring-washer applied to said pin, and a lever arranged below the plate, and means for securing it to said handle so that both rotate together, as

shown and described.

3. The combination, with the box-body and its cover, of the recessed plate secured in a hole in the cover flush with the surface of the latter, a lever-handle arranged in the recess and having a pin that passes through the plate, a lever arranged under the latter and having a central recess, means for securing the lever to said pin, a washer encircling the handle-pin and arranged in the recess of the lever, and slidable bars connected with the ends of the latter, as shown and described.

4:- The combination, with a box-body and its cover, of slidable bars, a lever with which said bars are connected, a lever-handle having a pendent pin, means for securing the lever to said pin, a plate secured to the upper side of the cover and having projections between which the said handle may lie, and a spring-washer which encircles the handle-pin and tends to hold the handle locked between the said projections, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM JORDAN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES A. GILL, J. N. MAYBURY. 

